Is Russia Going to be Obama's test?

[Mr. Blue]

Just picked this up off of another forum.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3385988/Russia-welcomes-Barack-Obama-with-deployment-of-nuclear-capable-missiles.html

Not sure what's the deal with Russia's saber rattling of late, but it's a little worrisome.

[Moby]

Russia wants to stop the missile shield and things like the Georgian conflict. All the sabre rattling has been to stop NATO growth and the missile shield.

A true test won't come until we start moving on a path to decrease our debt, increase our military readiness or start improving energy technology to get off oil. As long as we're racking up debt, keeping our military busy in Iraq and stuck on oil there's no need to be tested as we're on the path that Bin Laden has chosen.

[Moby]

Mr. Blue, I put your responce over here http://dcjunkies.com/showthread.php?t=6947 as I think it's a good topic on it's own

[herdnantz]

Just picked this up off of another forum.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3385988/Russia-welcomes-Barack-Obama-with-deployment-of-nuclear-capable-missiles.html

Not sure what's the deal with Russia's saber rattling of late, but it's a little worrisome.


Russia has already made statements to this effect long before Obama was elected, but since the US didn't pay much attention, they thought they would just dust it off again with a little more force as soon as our elections were over. This was always their plan. Russia has been rattling their sabre since Putin was in office as Pres. And he still has immense power to sway the party as Prime Minister (it's like he never really left office). Believe me Russia will simply be one of Obama's challenges.

[ROdger Right]

U will see russia more independent and they know war is almost an impossiblilty because they can work the same game we can
when they r powerful they expand when they r in troule they shrink, they r just beggining to expand and obama will not be able to stop them